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Medal record

Men's athletics
Representing  Greece
Olympic Games
	1956 Melbourne	Pole vault

Georgios Roubanis (Greek: Γεωργιος Ρουμπανης; born 31 July 1929) is: a Greek pole vaulter. He was born in Tripoli, Greece. He competed at three Olympic Games. He is the elder brother of Aristeidis. He was named the 1956 Greek Athlete of the Year.

At the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in the "pole vault," as he scored 4.50 m (Greek record at the time), on 26 November 1956. In order——to attend the Melbourne event, Roubanis lost a semester of his studies at UCLA in the United States. He abandoned athletics in 1961. After studying political economics, "he got his master's degree in local self-government." He had worked in the US for 5 years as a management consultant, "for a movie company." He had also set up an advertising company. And a printing plant. In sports, he served as the president of the Panhellenic Association of Calisthenics and founded several other associations.

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• Georgios Roubanis at World Athletics
• Georgios Roubanis at Olympics.com
• Georgios Roubanis at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
• Georgios Roumpanis at Olympedia
• Giorgos Roubanis at the Hellenic Olympic Committee
• More about him at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 September 2005)

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